Observations on gout, critical and pathological; or, an analytical survey of the views at present entertained of the nature of that disorder; with practical remarks on the injurious effects of colchicum, and on certain modes of diet / by A. Rennie.

Date:
1825
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Credit: Observations on gout, critical and pathological; or, an analytical survey of the views at present entertained of the nature of that disorder; with practical remarks on the injurious effects of colchicum, and on certain modes of diet / by A. Rennie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by the use of wine and spirituous and fermented liquors, is not to be apprehended. The converse is more consistent with observation. What fol- lows is rational, and worthy of notice . “ The gout, except when it affects the liver or stomach, seems always to be a secondai'y disease, and begins with the torpor of some distant part of the system.” Again: “ The most frequent primary seat of the gout I suppose to be the liver, which is probably affected with torpor, not only previous to the annual paro- xysms, but to every change of its situation from one limb to another.” He observes — “ A pain over the pit of the stomach, with indigestion and flatulency, generally attends the commencement of the inflammation in each limb.” “ The remote cause is, whatever induces temporary torpor or weakness of the system,” “ debility or torpor, which is the cause of gout,” &c. “ When the membrane which covers the ball of the great toe sympathises with some membranous part of a torpid or inflamed liver, this membrane of the toe falls into that kind of action, whether of torpor or inflammation, with greater energy tha